Italy: A Venetian galley under sail, Michael of Rhodes, 1434

Michael of Rhodes, a Venetian galley commander, wrote a manuscript describing his knowledge of mathematics, ships and shipbuilding, navigation, and time reckoning. It contains some of the earliest surviving portolan aids to navigation and is the world's first known treatise on shipbuilding.

Copyright:

Supplier: CPA Media Co. Ltd.

Credit:

Pictures From History